Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflamed area on the arm was no more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more than 1,300 others, 25 gave a danger-signal reaction. One of these, a soldier suspecting venereal disease, ignored the warning, went to a private physician and demanded penicillin. He got it. Within five minutes he was dead...
...planning caused by pure political expediency. "If governments become the prisoners of their own more or less arbitrary development targets, in all probability something will have to give under the pressures of inflation and the impatience generated because practice is not living up to promise. And perhaps the greatest danger is not that development will give, but that government by the consent of the governed will be abandoned...
...sorry," said Benson, but he just had to take the step, because if free-market corn prices fell too low, farmers would take advantage of cheap feed and raise so many piglets that a hog glut would result. Benson might have added that the cheap-corn danger is a result of the chronic corn surplus, which in turn is a result of, the jerry-built federal price-support programs...
Murrow's alarms are almost always matched by his excursions to the scene of the news. He covers his stories with an intensity that courts exhaustion and a passion for physical danger that is the despair of his friends and employers. Says his friend and boss, Bill Paley: "You could almost call it a drive to self-destruction. He's never happy unless he's working. When he looks like death, that's when you feel a happy glow...
...danger is that the effort will be sabotaged by the bureaucrats, those who have made a career of emergency-type, government-to-government foreign aid. Not only does the new program pose a sharp threat to the perpetuation of much of foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks...